I've triedto become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.
Stephen Dunn
Although I know it's unfair I reveal myself One mask at a time
time mask
I think most of our lives are made up of both things visible and things interior, with a large chunk of them being interior.
lives things made visible
The reaction has been overwhelming, and I'm just getting used to it. I think I actually, though, could get used to it for a long time.
time reaction
I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.
parents thought haunted young early die thing
poetry self identity poem
Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.
poetry
All good poems are victories over something.
poets poetics
Altruism is for thosewho can't endure their desires. There's a worldas ambiguous as a moan,a pleasure moanour earnest neighborsmight think a crime. It's where we could live.I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.--Mon Semblable
disappointment pleasure
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